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• The Designer at a glance
  A tour of the VisionScaper Designer screen: top bar, seven tools, side panel, scene bar and the step-by-step guide.
• Start a new design
  How to begin a design from the home screen: the Design my yard wizard, the source buttons, naming, and starting from an existing design.
• Take or upload a photo of your yard
  Use the in-app camera with framing guides and an eye-level line, or upload an existing photo.
• Tips for a good yard photo
  How to frame, light and level a photo so plants, ground materials and the grow slider look right.
• Design on a bird's-eye (aerial) view
  Find your address on aerial imagery, frame the yard and design from above at true scale.
• Try a sample yard
  Practice in the Designer with five ready-made yards before using your own photo.
• Explore your home in 3D and save angles
  Fly around your property in Google 3D, bookmark viewing angles and get directions for photographing from a saved spot.
• Add and manage views of one design
  Keep several photos (angles) in one design, rename or delete views, and know what a new view copies.
• Set the scale with "Set it up for me"
  Let VisionScaper find eye level and a door or car, then check the yellow 6-foot people so plants are the right size.
• Measure something to set the scale exactly
  Tap the bottom and top of a door, garage door, fence, car or person and enter its real height for a more exact scale.
• Browse the plant and item library
  Find plants and garden features in the Add tool, by category, and read each card.
• Search the library, including by voice
  Type or speak plant names, colors, light and more into the library search box, with typo-tolerant matching.
• Filter plants by goal, light, color, size and more
  Use goal ideas and filter groups with live counts, sort the list, set a hardiness zone, and find the pet-safe and invasive labels.
• Read a plant fact sheet and growth chart
  Open the i on a plant card to see four-season previews, facts like size, light, zones and deer resistance, and the height and width growth chart.
• Place a plant or feature in your yard
  Pick a plant from the library and tap the photo to drop it at its real size, then place several at once.
• Move, resize, turn, flip and copy items
  Change a placed plant or feature with drag handles, the nudge pad, size boxes, turn and flip buttons, group planting, blend and shadow controls.
• The selection bar, selecting many items and layers
  Use the floating bar to turn, flip, copy, remove or finish; select several items with a box; lock, hide and arrange things in Layers.
• Plant age and the See it grow slider
  Choose how big a plant is when planted, then drag See it grow or press Play to watch the yard mature year by year.
• Seasons, day and night, and sun direction
  Switch between Peak look and the four seasons, turn on night lighting, flip the sun, and hold a button to compare with the original photo.
• Paint mulch, stone, lawn and pavers on the ground
  Brush a material onto the photo, with brush size, softness, opacity, perspective, 3D depth and photo-shadow sliders.
• Draw beds, patios, lawns, walkways, walls and edging
  Outline a shape on the ground, fill it with a material, add edging, and reshape it later with draggable dots.
• The Add an area wizard
  Cover part of the photo with any material in three steps: choose where, choose what, then swap or fine-tune in place.
• Outline modes and fine-tuning edges
  Use Curved edges, Straight edges or Rectangle to outline an area, then drag white dots, add teal plus dots, remove points and undo.
• Clear an area (Blank canvas) and remove weeds
  Replace weeds, old plants and clutter in a bed or lawn with clean mulch, lawn or soil, or pick just the weeds to remove.
• Remove something from your photo
  Take a bush, bin, hose or weeds out of the photo with the guided Remove screens or the Remove it tab.
• Pick the spot: selection tools
  Choose exactly what to change with curved, straight, rectangle and smarter selection modes, then use it for removing or planting areas.
• Add your own item from a photo
  Photograph a plant or feature, cut it out, and save it to My Library so you can place it in any design.
• Library packs and the Materials pack
  Site owners install photo and material packs in WordPress so the Designer shows real plant photos and more ground materials.
• Design with AI
  Describe a change, review the plan, and let AI redesign, restyle, replace or remove items in your photo.
• Identify a plant from a photo
  Use Plant ID to name a plant from its picture, see look-alikes and warnings, and save it to My Library.
• Undo, redo and seeing the original
  Step back through up to 120 changes, jump to any step in History, redo, and peek at your original photo.
• Save, autosave and cloud designs
  How designs are saved on your device and in your account, and how to find, tag, favorite and recover them.
• Print, share and send a design
  Save a picture, print a one-page sheet, share a link, or send the design to the business.
• Keyboard shortcuts
  Every Designer key in one table: tools, editing, zoom, and the selection tool.
• Use the Designer on a phone
  Camera, tilt, pinch zoom, long-press menu and other touch tips for phones and tablets.
• Designer troubleshooting
  Fixes for common Designer problems: camera, scale, saving, missing plants, 3D, aerial and AI.